prefilled passwords in FireFox

[ssprog]

Hello.

I am using a label on top of a textbox to create a watermark effect. The label says "user name" or "password", but when the textbox gets the focus, the label disappears...

In Firefox, when it remembers a password from a previous session, it pre-fills in the form for you. This is disrupting the watermark effect, bec. it doesn't seem to fire a change event or focus event. I am ending up with a watermark and a pre-filled text box.

Any ideas what event fires when FF fills in the data? Any ideas how to get around this?

Thanks,
Solomon

[rangana]

I could see two possibilities for this.

1. Add autocomplete="off" on the form that contains your textbox.

2. Add a script to ensure that the textbox don't have a value on load. Something along this lines:

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<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function()
{document.getElementById('mytextbox').value='';}
</script>


Just ensure to replace mytextbox with the id of your textbox.

Hope it helps.

[ssprog]

Thank You. I'll give it a shot.

[rangana]

No problem. Glad I could help

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